Thursday, December 9, 2010

Chicken Parmesan


1/2 cup butter melted
2 teaspoons of Dijon Mustard
1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon of Salt
1/2 cup grated Parmesan Cheese
1 cup dry Bread Crumbs
6-8 skinless, boneless Chicken Breast halves
{I did mine more like strips}

In a shallow bowl, combine butter, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and salt. In another shallow dish, combine Parmesan cheese and crumbs. Dip chicken in butter mixture then coat both sides with crumb mixture. Place in an ungreased 13x9 baking pan. Drizzle with any remaining butter mixture. Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink. Last 5 minutes top chicken with a slice of mozzaralla cheese. Serve over spaghetti noodles and top with spaghetti sauce.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole


1/2 c. butter
1 cup crushed ritz crackers
1 Tbsp. poppy seeds
4 chicken breasts (cooked and cubed)
1 can cream of chicken soup
1½ c. sour cream

Topping:
½ c. crushed ritz crackers
3 Tbsp. parmesan cheese

Melt butter, add crackers and poppy seeds. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into a 9x13 inch pan. Top with ritz cracker topping. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

**my suggestions for easy goodness**
Place chicken in crockpot with the can of cream of chicken over top. Cook on high for 4 hours, shred and combine with all other ingredients. Chicken is very moist and so easy.

Teriyaki Chicken Sandwiches


4 chicken breasts
1 bottle Teriyaki sauce (we used Lawry's brand)
3/4 c. brown sugar
4 slices deli ham
1 can sliced pineapple (or you can use fresh which would be even better)
4 slices Pepper Jack cheese
4 large hamburger buns

Pound chicken breasts until they are about 1/4" thick all around. Place in a large Ziploc bag. Combine Teriyaki sauce and brown sugar until sugar dissolves. Add 1/2 of the mixture to the bag with the chicken and seal tightly. Place bag in refrigerator for at least 4-5 hours. Separate remaining Teriyaki mixture into 2 separate bowls (to prevent cross contamination use 2 separate brushes too)-- one for the pineapple, one for the chicken. Open pineapple can and save a little of the juice in a bowl. Place chicken and pineapple on the grill (medium heat). Brush with Teriyaki sauce every few minutes until chicken and pineapple are done-- try to only flip the chicken and pineapple once. Either on the grill or in a frying pan, cook ham with a little of the pineapple juice until it becomes nice and hot. Slice open hamburger buns and place a piece of cooked chicken on each bottom bun. Top with cheese, ham, grilled pineapple, and bun top. Serve immediately with remaining grilled pineapple.

Parmesan Baked Potatoes

6 small potatoes, scrubbed and cut in half
1/4 cup butter
grated parmesan cheese
garlic powder
other seasonings (to personal preference)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Melt butter and pour into a 9x13 inch pan and spread evenly across the bottom. Generously sprinkle parmesan cheese and lightly sprinkle other seasonings all over the butter. Place potato halves face down on the butter and seasonings. Place in preheated oven and bake for 40 to 45 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan. Serve on a plate with a side of sour cream for dipping.
This is how mine actually turned out, pretty huh!
They were delicious, I will make baked potatoes
like this lots.

Yogurt Pancakes

For the pancakes:
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. sugar
3 eggs
2 1/2 - 3 c. plain yogurt (or 2 c. buttermilk)
1/2 c. butter, melted
2 c. all-purpose flour

Mix all ingredients. If it seems too thick, add milk a little at a time until it reaches a good "pancake batter" consistency.

For the syrup:
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 cup plain yogurt
1/2 cup butter
3 Tablespoons corn syrup
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla

Bring first four ingredients to a boil in a large pot. Once boiling, reduce to a simmer and stir constantly for 5 minutes. Add baking soda and vanilla. Remove from stove and serve over pancakes, waffles or french toast. (The syrup will be thin-- this is normal. After it cools off a bit it thickens up. Store any extra syrup in the fridge for later use.)
**The baking soda will make it boil high so make sure you use a large pot.***

Creamy Meatballs

Meatballs:
1 lb. ground beef
2-3 carrots, shredded
1 large potato, shredded (raw)
1 yellow onion, grated
1 egg
1/2 c. bread crumbs
red pepper flakes, to taste
salt and pepper to taste

Sauce:
1 can cream of chicken
1 can cream of mushroom
1/2 c. sour cream
1 can milk
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp garlic powder
salt & pepper to taste

Preaheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix meatball ingredients together. Roll into fairly large meatballs and place in a lightly greased 9 x 13 baking dish or large casserole (you will have to put them pretty close together and that's ok). Bake for 25-30 minutes (you can also brown them in a skillet instead of baking them but I am all about putting in the least amount of effort). Mix sauce ingredients together in a medium sized mixing bowl and mix with a whisk until creamy. After meatballs are browned, pour sauce evenly over the meatballs and place back in the oven for another 15-20 minutes (or until sides are hot and bubbly). Serve over rice.

Thai Chicken Skewers


"chicken on a stick" You can also grill these on a George Foreman Grill if inside.
Ingredients:


2 large limes
1/2 cup rice vinegar
1/3 cup chunky peanut butter
1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
1 Tbs. minced ginger
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 Tbs. soy sauce
3 Tbs. firmly packed light brown sugar
1 Tbs. Asian sesame oil
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, about 1 1/2 lb. total, cut into thick strips
1 small head romaine lettuce, cored and leaves shredded
1 cucumber, peeled and sliced

Directions:

Marinate the chicken
Place 8 bamboo skewers in cold water to soak until ready to use. Grate 1 tsp. zest from the limes and squeeze 1/4 cup juice.

In a bowl, whisk together the lime zest, lime juice, vinegar and peanut butter until smooth. Stir in the cilantro, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, brown sugar and sesame oil. Reserve about 1/2 cup of the mixture in a separate bowl to use as a sauce. Add the chicken to the marinade and turn to coat. Let stand at room temperature for 10 minutes, or cover and refrigerate for up to 2 hours.

Cook the chicken
Prepare a medium-hot fire in a grill. Or, preheat a broiler.

Remove the chicken from the marinade, discarding the marinade. Divide the chicken strips among the 8 skewers, threading the strips on lengthwise. Place the skewers on the grill rack, or put them on a baking sheet and place under the broiler. Cook, turning once, until seared on the outside and opaque throughout, about 6 minutes total.

Divide the lettuce, cucumber slices and chicken skewers among 4 plates. Drizzle with some of the reserved sauce and serve immediately, passing the additional sauce at the table. Serves 4.
May want to make extra sauce!

Beef Stroganoff



•1 lb. hamburger
•1 (10 3/4 oz) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
•1 packet brown gravy mix
•1/2 cup sour cream
•2 Tbsp. chopped onion
•salt & pepper (to taste)
•1 small can sliced mushrooms (I used fresh mushrooms)
•Egg noodles, rice or mashed potatoes (I love it over noodles)

1.Brown hamburger with chopped onion, salt and pepper. While the meat is browning, Start the noodles, rice or mashed potatoes to cook. Drain off any grease from the hamburger. (I then cooked the fresh mushrooms in the beef fat until tender)

2.Add cream of mushroom soup, gravy mix (plus water according to packet directions) mix together and simmer over low heat about 10-15 minutes.

3.Add mushrooms and the sour cream mix until thoroughly blended. Serve over cooked noodles, mashed potatoes or rice.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Homemade stuffing

cubed bread
saute onions with S&P

8-10 slices wheat bread
1/2 onion
3 T butter
s&p
1 can cream of mushroom
chicken stock
sage

Not really a recipe just a method. Cube your bread, set aside. Saute onion in butter, add S&P. Mix all in a bowl, the bread, soup, onion, sage, and chicken stock to moisten. This will be mushy. Put in a shallow dish, I stir mine several times so that it all gets toasty, sometimes the bottom is slightly mushy. So much better than from a box.

{I asked how my Grandma does her's and this is her run down, different than mine. She browns breakfast sausage and drains the fat. She adds onion and celery, then to moisten the bread cubes which she has browned in the oven, she adds drippings from the turkey, her's is very delicious, I will try that way next year}

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Linda's Baked Beans {"the good baked beans"}


6 slices of bacon
1/2 c onion chopped
2 T brown sugar
1 T worcestershire sacue
1 t yellow mustard
2 cans pork and beans

Cook bacon, take out and cook the onion in bacon drippings. Add brown sugar, worcestershire, & mustard. Mix well and add to beans. Pour in baking dish. Crumble bacon on top of beans.
Cook 350 1 hour

Hashbrown Casserole


1 pkg frozen shredded hash browns
1/2 pkg bacon
1/4 C chopped onions
1/4 C chopped green pepper
2 cups shredded cheese
6 eggs whipped with a little milk

All done in an electric skillet. Cook bacon until crisp, leave drippings in skillet, add hashbrowns and pat into skillet. Let cook and brown slightly. Add S&P on top. Add onions and green peppers on top. Cover and let veggies cook slightly. Blend eggs, milk, S&P. Pour over potatoes, top with cheese and crumbled bacon. Cover. Cook over low heat about 15 minutes more. Loosen and serve in wedges.

Sausage Breakfast Bake {Christmas Morning Casserole}


10 slices bread cubed {slightly stale is best}
1-2 lbs sausage browned
1 1/2 C milk
1 can cream of mushroom soup
2 C shredded cheese
4 eggs
3/4 t dry mustard
S&P

mix all except cheese and layer in casserole dish. Sit overnight. In morning you may need to add a little more milk. Cover with cheese and bake. 325 1 hour.

*I just made this this morning. I didn't let it sit overnight. I toasted my bread cubes just in the baking dish while I prepped everything else. It was perfect!*

Buttermilk Syrup


1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 t vanilla
1/2 t baking soda

Heat first 3 ingredients to a boil, in LARGE pan. Remove from heat and add the vanilla and soda. Stir well. Serve immediately warm.
YUMMY!!!

Taco Chicken Roll-Ups


1 1/2 C. crushed cheese crackers {like cheeze-its}
1/2 pkg taco seasoning
1-2 lbs chicken breasts
pepperjack cheese
1 can chopped green chilies

Lay chicken breast flat, pound thin. In center place cheese and green chilies,
roll and toothpick together. Roll the chicken in your crushed crackers and
taco seasoning that you have mixed together.

Bake at 350 35-45 minutes

Homemade Lasagne


I remember when my husband first made this, I though he was a chef!
We were just married and I didn't cook much then.

Lasagne noodles about 8-10 cooked
1 lb hamburger
2 jars of your favorite spaghetti sauce
1 tub of cottage cheese
2-3 cup of mozzarella
onion chopped {if desired}

brown your hamburger and add onions. I season my meat while browning with a little s&p, garlic powder etc. Add your browned meat to one jar of spaghetti sauce. Pour a little sauce from the second jar in the bottom of a baking dish, layer 3-4 noodles, put part of the meat mixture on top, then some cottage cheese and mozzarella. Sprinkle some more sauce, then repeat layer. Finish with with a meat layer on top and lots of cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Ultimate Bars


Whatever you call these they are amazing!
1 pkg plus 2-3 graham crackers crushed
1 cube of butter melted
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 cup of pecans
1 cup shredded coconut
1 can sweetened condensed milk

Combine crushed graham crackers and melted butter. Press on bottom of 9x13 pan. Sprinkle chips, nuts and coconut over graham crackers. Drizzle sweetened condensed milk over top. Bake 25 minutes at 350.

French Dip


Sliced roast beef (we used already cooked roast beef fresh from the deli)
Sandwich rolls
Sauted Onions (you could also add mushrooms or peppers)
Au Ju sauce (1 packet/per pound of roast beef)
Provolone Cheese

Mix Au Ju packet with water (amount given on packet) directly in crockpot. Add roast beef, onions etc.. to Au Ju sauce. Turn crockpot on low for 3-5 hours (no cooking needed if you bought it cooked--low for 8 hours for uncooked beef).

Slice bread and place cheese on rolls. Place in oven under the boiler until cheese is melted

Buffalo Chicken Dip

4 oz blue cheese dressing
4 oz ranch dressing

8oz cream cheese {brick}
2 cans canned chicken 12 oz each
1/4 C Franks Hot sauce
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Soften cream cheese in microwave, add blue cheese and ranch. Mix together with chicken and Franks Hot Sauce, Bake 350 for 20 min. Take out cover with cheese and put back in oven for 10 min. Serve with big Fritos Scoops.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Wilted Spinach and Bacon Salad




I feel like a newly inspired woman!
I went to a cooking class featuring ShirleyJ cooking essentials
Universal sauce, seasonings, etc.
This is a recipe in their order book. I am waiting for my sauces to come in,
so future ShirleyJ recipes to come.

Here is the real recipe:
2 T ShirleyJ Pizza and Pasta Seasoning Mix
8 strips of bacon
3 oz feta cheese
12 oz bag of baby spinach
1/3 C red onion diced
1/3 C dried cranberries
1 Fuji apple, sliced
1 t brown sugar
1/4 C balsamic vinegar
1 T water

Cook the bacon, save the drippings. Crumble bacon in a bowl with spinach, cranberries and apple. Into a small saucepan combine the bacon drippings, onions, vinegar, water sugar and seasoning. Cook on low 4-5 minutes. Toss warm dressing in the salad. Garnish with Feta.

My twist:
The dressing seemed to need a little bit more brown sugar
after only pouring on half of the dressing I added more to the remaining
=much better, I think 2 t of brown sugar instead of 1 {maybe more}
I didn't have red onion, I used dehydrated {still delicious}
I always cook my bacon in the oven, 400 degrees 15 minutes
it always cooks perfectly, always.
I will also put on walnuts or pecans next time for a little crunch!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Monkey Bread Muffins


2 tubes of biscuit dough
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
6 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup brown sugar

Spray your muffin tin with non-stick spray. Cut each biscuit into 4ths. So in total you should have 80 little pieces of dough. In a bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon. Dip each piece of dough into the cinnamon-sugar mixture until totally covered. Divide evenly between the 6 cups. (about 13-14 in each cup) In a saucepan boil the butter and brown sugar. Spoon about a tablespoon of the brown sugar/butter mixture over each muffin cup. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20-25 minutes or until baked through. Best when hot and fresh out of the oven!

Enjoy!

Chicken Croissants


Another of my husband's favorites
2 packages of crescent rolls in a tube
breadcrumbs
2 chicken breasts shredded
1 brick {8oz} cream cheese
chopped green onions
s&p

I boil my chicken breasts then shred in my cuizinart
combine with softened cream cheese
green onions, s&p
place a scoop in the middle of two crescents
dip in breadcrumbs
place all on sprayed cookie sheet
cook 35 minutes @ 350 degrees

Kahula Pork


Yummy crockpot recipe

2-4 lbs pork roast
soy sauce
garlic powder
worchestire sauce

place your roast in your crockpot
no real recipe here
just splash on soy, worchestire and sprinkle
with garlic powder
cook on low 6-8 hours and shred, serve on rolls

Fried Chicken

This is my husband's favorite meal
his Mom has made it for him for years
and it is sooooo easy.

2-3 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
flour
salt
veg oil

first cut your chicken breasts into smaller portions (usually just in half)
then soak them in water
I pull them one by one out of the water
while holding it up shake your salt all over the chicken
then dredge in flour, keeping lots on the top
place in an electric skillet @ 325 degrees
cook for 45 minutes to an hour flipping occassionally
let it get nice and crispy

to make a homemade gravy drain most of the grease off except for a few tablespoons of grease in the bottom. add a few tablespoons of flour and fix until it soaks up the grease, turn up your heat and add milk until gravy consistency. Add S&P

Sweet Potato Soufle

Ingredients:
3 C mashed sweet potatoes
1/2 C sugar
1/4 C milk
2 T butter, melted
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1tsp vanilla

For the topping:
1/2 C brown sugar
1/2 chopped pecans
1/4 flour
2 T butter

Directions:
In a large bowl, combine sweet potatoes, sugar, milk, and butter. Add eggs one at a time, stirring well after each addition to fully incoporate the eggs.
Stir in salt and vanilla. Pour into a baking dish.

In a medium bowl, combine brown sugar, pecans, flour, and butter until very crumbly and well combined. Sprinkle over the sweet potato mixture.

Bake at 350 1 hour

Cilantro Lime Dressing

1 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup mayo
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped fine
1 pkg ranch dressing mix
4 Tbs salsa verde (green salsa)
2 cloves garlic pressed
1/2 t Tobasco sauce
juice of one lime
put in a blender (I used my cuisinart small blender)
Directions:
Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor. Blend or pulse until well combined. Taste and adjust seasonings as necessary.
Think Cafe Rio baby!!!

Poppyseed Dressing

Ingredients:
1/3c cider vinegar
1/2c + 2 Tbsp canola oil
3-4Tbsp finely grated red onion
1/2c sugar
1tsp dry mustard powder
1 1/2tsp salt
1 1/2tsp poppy seeds

Combine all ingredients in a lidded jar and shake until well combined. (You can also use a blender or food processor if you don't want to use a jar.)

Taste and adjust seasoning by adding more vinegar, oil, or sugar. Store in the refrigerator.

Will keep up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Easy Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup=creamy

2 chicken breasts in one can of cream of chicken soup
what you will need
Viola!

Always serve with rolls

Really there is no recipe, this is just how you do it :)
put 2 chicken breasts in your crockpot and cover with one can Cream of Chicken soup
let cook 2-4 hours, then shred chicken
bring to boil 32oz chicken stock {1 box}
and 2 more cups of water
add your diced onion, chopped celery and frozen chopped carrots
1 clove chopped garlic {or used pre minced}
s&p to taste
add your shredded chicken including the soup it cooked it
when all simmered and veggies cooked add your Grandma's Noodles.
sooooo good!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Creamy Taco Stuffed Shells


Just tried this recipe and it is so good!

1 1/4 lbs lean ground beef
6 0z cream cheese
1 t salt
1 t chili powder
18 jumbo pasta shells
2 T butter
1 cup taco sauce (I used Taco Bell Mild)
1-2 cups shredded cheese
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 cup crushed tortilla chips
sour cream to top

Boil your pasta shells, rinse and toss in butter, set aside. In skillet brown ground beef with the onion, add cream cheese, salt and chili powder to ground beef. Simmer for 5 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Fill pasta shells with beef mixture arrange in baking dish. Pour taco sauce over top and cover with tinfoil. Bake for 15 minutes. Uncover and top with cheese and crushed up tortilla chips, cook for another 10 minutes longer.
Top with sour cream.

Ham and Cheese Sliders


12 good white dinner rolls/slider rolls
12 pieces good honey ham
12 small slices provolone cheese
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup miracle whip

1 T poppyseeds
1 1/2 T yellow mustard
1/2 stick butter, melted
1 T minced onion
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

In a small bowl, mix together mayonnaise and miracle whip. Spread onto both sides of the center of each roll. Place a slice of ham and a slice of Swiss inside of each roll. Close rolls and place them into a large baking dish or heavy cookie sheet. Place very close together.

Whisk together all of the poppy seed sauce ingredients. Pour evenly over all of the sandwiches. Let sit 10 minutes or until butter sets slightly. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until cheese is melted. Uncover and cook for 2 additional minutes. Serve warm.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Crab and Cream Cheese Wontons


1/2 pkg wonton wrappers
1 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese
1 c. fresh crabmeat (optional)
1 egg white, whipped
oil for frying

Put about 1 heaping tsp. of cream cheese in the middle of each wonton wrapper (if you are using crabmeat, mix the crab and cream cheese together before adding to the wonton wrapper). Brush egg white (or you can just use water) around the edge of the wrapper and fold over to seal (if you are confused on how to fold it, look on the back of the wonton wrapper package.. it will show you step by step how to do it). Fry in oil until golden brown. That's it! Serve with sweet and sour sauce combined with chili paste (or if you are a wimp and don't like it spicy, just serve with sweet and sour sauce).

Close as you can come to Wingers Sticky Fingers


Make sure you get Frank's hot sauce


Okay this is seriously the best copy-cat recipe I have ever tried. Krista and I found it and she made it (thanks for telling me how good it turned out)

15-20 of your favorite frozen chicken tender breasts
3 T. Frank's Hot Sauce
3/4 C Brown Sugar
2 T. Water

Cook chicken to directions then combine ingredients for sauce. When chicken done toss in a plastic bowl with a lid to coat. Serve with Ranch or Bleu Cheese. You'll be thinking you are eating at Winger's. We like to serve ours on lettuce and make Sticky Finger Salads.


Thursday, March 18, 2010

Fried Pickles


So easy!

Start with as many dill pickles as you want
I bought the ovals, you can use the chips too.
Mix up a small amount of pancake batter and dip the
pickles it it first. Then dredge in a flour/bread crumb mixture
to which I added pepper
and fry in a fry daddy until golden
Dip in Ranch and enjoy!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Italian meat loaves


2 eggs beaten
17-20 saltine crackers crushed
1 cup milk
1/2 cup shredded parm cheese (shaker kind)
1/4 t garlic salt
1/2 t dried basil
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 t worcestershire
1 1/2 lbs of ground beef
ground pepper
combine these and shape into mini little loaves (bigger than the picture)
about the size of your palm
Then on top of each with a squirt ketchup and spread
then shake more parm cheese and sprinkle some dried basil

Bake @ 350 for 35-45 minutes in a glass baking dish

*this a recipe from Jeremy's Mom, she made it while she was here and we just made it
again. It is super yummy and easy. I am weird about leftovers and I ate this the next day heated up in the oven again, and it was as good as the first day.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Broiled Parmesan Tilapia



1/2 C Shredded Parmesan
1/4 C Butter
3 T Mayo
2 T Lemon Juice
1/4 t Dried Basil
1/4 t Black Pepper
1/8 t Onion Powder
1/8 t salt
1-2 lbs of Tiliapia

Put your oven on broil first. Then line a baking sheet with tinfoil and spray with cooking spray. Cook Tilapia for 2-3 minutes on one side then flip over and cook another 2-3 minutes on other side. Take out of oven and spread mixture of all the ingredients over top of Tilapia for another 2-3 minutes until brown and bubbly.

Okay this is AMAZING, seriously. If you don't like fish Tilapia is the most mild fish ever. I cannot even explain the taste with the crusty yummy cheese mixture on top.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Garlic Chicken Farfalle Pasta



16 oz. Farfalle pasta
1 c. heavy whipping cream
3-4 chicken breasts (boneless, skinless)
2 to 3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 Tbsp. pepper*
1/2 c. butter
1 lb. bacon, crumpled**
1/2 c. shredded Parmesan cheese
1 (12 oz) Lawry’s mesquite marinade with lime juice

*Seems like a lot of pepper, but it has a wonderful flavor when everything mixes together. If you’re apprehensive, do less pepper. You can always add more.

cook your bacon in the oven (400 degrees). And it’s crispy every time.

[ directions ]

Crock pot chicken and bottle of marinade on low for 6 hours. Pull marinated chicken out of the juices, allow to cool a little bit, and shred (I pull it apart). Set this aside. About a half-hour before serving, boil the pasta. In a small saucepan, melt butter, add garlic, whipping cream, pepper, parmesan cheese, and crumpled bacon. Whisk together on low heat for 3-4 minutes. In a large bowl, pour over cooked, drained pasta, add chicken and stir through. Sprinkle a little bit more shredded parmesan cheese on top. I actually didn't have time to crock pot my chicken, I sauted it with a dry packet and just as yummy.

Creamy Chicken & Dumplings



1 lb chicken breasts
5 bouillon cubes
1 quart water
1cups bisquick
1/3 cups milk
1tbsp butter
2 stalks celery

Place chicken breasts & bouillon cubes in a large pot & cover with 2 quarts of water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer for 20-25 mins until chicken is done.

Meanwhile mix together the bisquick and milk until soft dough forms. When chicken is done, remove from pot and set aside. Drop spoonfuls of dough into the chicken stock. Simmer over low heat, covered, for 10 mins. In a saute pan saute in butter the chicken and celery, adding s&p. Next add back in the chicken with sauted celery, then cook uncovered for 10 mins.

Tip: I do this for my "homemade" chicken noodle soup. Next time I am going to put chicken in a crock pot with a can of cream of chicken over top, so it is soft and shreds easy.

wondering about the eggs, there was a step I did but don't think it needs it. It called for whites of hard boiled eggs, I didn't think it added anything so I omitted it.